Con"dem*na"tion (?), n.
[L. condemnatio.] 1. The act of
condemning or pronouncing
to be wrong;
censure; blame; disapprobation. In every other sense of condemnation, as blame, censure, reproof, private judgment, and the like.
Paley.
2. The act of judicially condemning, or
adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or
forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture. A legal and judicial condemnation.
Paley. Whose
condemnation is pronounced.
Shak.
3. The state of being condemned.
His pathetic
appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation.
W.
Irving. 4. The ground or
reason of condemning.
This is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness rather light, because their deeds were evil.
John iii.
19.
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